Re: Aramaic unification and information retrieval

From: Elaine Keown (elaine_keown@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 10:11:37 EST

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         Elaine Keown
         in Austin

    Dear John and main list:

    Since this was on the main list, I guess it's ok
    to reply there.

    > Now, that said, I am very keen to have the Samaritan
    > shin encoded, because
    > this is used as a mark in the apparatus critici of
    > the BHS and possibly

    In the Dead Sea Scrolls, several other letters with
    Palaeo-Hebrew shapes are used as paragraph etc.
    markers.

    So, if you wish, your shin could be submitted when
    they are--Elaine

    > other Bible editions (in BHS it used in citations of
    > Pentateuchi textus
    > Hebraeo-Samaritanus secundum). I'd be perfectly
    > happy to see it encoded as
    > a Letterlike Symbol, since it is being used as a
    > symbol and not as a
    > Samaritan letter.
    >
    > John Hudson
    >
    > Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
    > Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
    >
    > What was venerated as style was nothing more than
    > an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty
    > hand.
    > - Orhan Pamuk, _My name is red_
    >
    >

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